Canadian Art Gallery Hosts Porn for Art’s Sake

If we had an art gallery called “La Petite Mort,” we’d probably do the same thing Guy Berube—the man who named his art haus after a euphemism for orgasms—is planning: hosting a porn shoot inside its well-hung halls in a move to beat the bad-economy blues.

Ottawa's La Petite Mort gallery has been hosting sexually explicit works since it opened in 2005, so enabling an art form of another sexually explicit kind seems right up its alley. Berube has a bit of an explicit background himself, so it makes even more sense. “Having worked briefly in New York's porn industry (as a cameraman), I can tell you that finding good locations is extremely difficult,” he says. "So I was flattered that they wanted my space.”

The gallery, like so many others trying make ends meet, offers its space to clients for personal or professional events, but this is the first time Berube’s gotten the chance to support the makers of adult film. “The gallery is open to all artists,” he explains, “and porn is art in my eyes.” Ours, too.